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Zillow is down 18 percent, trading around $28, the day after the online real-estate company unveiled a weak fourth-quarter forecast that left investors cold. The issue: Conventional display advertising is growing much more slowly than the company's paid-listings business, where real-estate professionals pay to put themselves in front of home...

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Trulia, the online real estate listings giant, has now publicly filed an IPO of up to $75 million — effectively confirming reports from the end of July that the company had already filed for an IPO privately. The company’s S-1 also provides an update on the state of the business, showing...

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Seattle University student Tuomi Shen presenting findings about Zillow Expedia’s Mark Okerstrom and Zillow’s Chad Cohen are accustomed to fielding tough questions from Wall Street analysts. But the chief financial officers were on a hot seat of a different sort last Wednesday as a group of accounting and business students...

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As part of an ongoing plan to diversify its business beyond advertising, Zillow today is launching a new service called Agent Hub that’s designed to help real estate professionals manage sales leads, contacts and other information in one spot. The new tool includes an analytics dashboard to track listing metrics and...

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Zillow, the real estate website and app that got its start by uncovering hidden details about homes for sale, is taking a stylish turn. In its seven-year existence, Zillow has expanded into home financing and rental properties. And now it is dipping a toe into home decorating and design, forcing...

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Now’s a pretty good time to be in the real estate business — or at least the real estate listing business. Zillow reported its fourth quarter 2012 earnings today, crushing analyst estimates and perhaps silencing the critics who say its business model is baloney. Revenue on the quarter was $34.3 million, a 73 percent...

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Seattle-based Zillow and Kirkland-based Market Leader are locked in a battle to provide the very best online tools to real estate professionals, something we’ve written about in detail over the past few months. So, how are things shaping up? We got a little bit of insight today as Market Leader...

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Real estate site Zillow just released its third-quarter earnings report, once again coming in just ahead of what Wall Street analysts had predicted. The company said it saw $31.9 million in revenue and earnings of 8 cents per share in the quarter ending September 30. That’s up from revenue of...

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The real estate market in the U.S. is quickly picking up pace again and last month, Zillow‘s mobile traffic hit a new record with 89 homes viewed per second (up from 75 homes the month before). Today, almost exactly four years after it first launched its Zillow for iPhone app,...

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Since the housing bubble burst half a decade ago, residential real estate has been an unsexy industry. As a result, the category has seen limited innovation. Existing giants like Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin have thrived in the home search category, if only by default. But all are nearly a...

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Is this the future of home search? Trulia today announced that it is working on a new Google Glass app, taking advantage of the cutting-edge augmented reality technology from the search giant that has yet to hit the mainstream market. “After spending three weeks with the device, I can...

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No Seattle VCs made the Midas List. Photo: Mark Herpel Each year, Forbes ranks the top 100 venture capitalists. The “Midas List” — as the ranking is called — attempts to identify those investors who are building the most valuable technology and life science companies. It is easy to pick...

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A Tweet posted last week by Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff — who I used to work for — caught my attention. I don’t know how she did it, but this designer already has 1400+ followers on #ZillowDigs! #jealous zillow.com/digs/user69368… — Spencer Rascoff (@spencerrascoff) February 8, 2013 My first thought was this: Zillow...

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Sift Science, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by former Google engineers, is today launching its fraud-fighting service based on machine learning – a system designed to adapt to the ever-changing techniques used by criminals online. The company is also announcing $4 million in Series A funding, led by Union Square...

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Sutton WestCoast Realty, one of the largest real estate brokerages in Canada, has received a cease-and-desist letter asking that the brokerage take down a Web site that allegedly mirrors one from Seattle online real estate upstart Estately. The two companies had been partners for the past three years, with Sutton...

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Zillow continues to attract users to its Web site and mobile apps, but not quite at the same rapid pace as earlier this year. The Seattle online real estate company reported 32.3 million unique visitors during the month of March, up 67 percent from 19.4 million during the same period...

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Which Seattle tech companies could take the IPO plunge in 2012? Photo via Bigstock The world may be waiting on a Facebook IPO. And while there’s some chatter about whether the $5 billion public offering from the social networking giant will open the floodgates for tech offerings, The Wall Street...

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Jonathan Sposato, left, and Bill Flora prep for their talk this evening at the GeekWire Meetup at the Zillow HQ. We’ll be hanging out with more than 200 GeekWire readers at the downtown Seattle headquarters of Zillow this evening for the GeekWire Spring Meetup. The crowd is now gathering...

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Managing your life as a busy person is hard. Luckily, there are ways to make it easier. There are amazing apps out there that do a great job of helping you plan, list, sort, and remember every part of your life.Zillow helps you to find or sell your new...

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Tableau Software, the fast-growing 10-year-old Seattle company which helps businesses and organization make better sense of their data, has set terms for its upcoming initial public offering, telling investors that it plans to sell 7.2 million shares at between $23 and $26 per share. At the $24.50 mid-point of that...

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Travel and expense management company Concur revealed in its earnings today that it made an undisclosed investment in Room 77, a comprehensive and personalized search engine and review site focused exclusively on finding and booking hotel rooms. Room 77, which officially launched in public beta in February, has collected and...

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Andreessen (Photo via Wikipedia) Tableau Software is expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange this Friday under the ticker symbol “DATA,” marking the first Seattle tech company to go public since Zillow’s public offering in July 2011. Demand appears to be strong for the 10-year-old company, which...

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Zillow, the popular online real estate search engine, just announced that it has closed its previously announced $40 million acquisition of RentJuice. With RentJuice, Zillow now owns a rental relationship management service for landlords, property managers and rental brokers that helps them market their inventory and client relationships. RentJuice is currently being...

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Fortune senior editor Adam Lashinsky stopped by the offices of Zillow earlier this month as he touted his new book: “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired and Secretive Company Really Works.” The interview — conducted by Zillow Chief Marketing Officer Amy Bohutinsky — provides some interesting insights into the culture...

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Real estate information marketplace Zillow has announced a new home improvement marketplace called Zillow Digs, letting those on the hunt for new domestic interiors find inspiration, as well as get to grips with the cost of remodeling projects. The Web and iPad app lets users create, save and share Pinterest-style...

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In its second earnings report as a public company, online real estate site Trulia saw both higher revenue and a bigger loss than analyst estimates, reporting revenue of $20.6 million and a net loss of $1.59 million for the quarter ending on December 30. That’s a (non-GAAP) loss of 3...

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Facebook just unveiled Home, a new app which more or less takes over the user experience on phones running Google's Android operating system. The whole point of Android is to get people to use Google's services, like Gmail and Google Web search. Home basically kills that. Home shows updates and...

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The shifting sands in the online real estate industry continue to morph. The latest development involves Zillow which recently notified Redfin and other real estate sites that it will no longer distribute for-sale-by-owner listings to their Web sites. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman explains in a blog post: Zillow primarily gets...

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Yahoo and Zillow are expanding their long-running online real estate partnership to include rental properties. As part of the deal, Zillow now provides more than 400,000 rental listings to Yahoo Homes. “Zillow is now able to give landlords, property managers and rental brokers significantly more exposure for their listings by extending...